The Wisdom of Meister Eckhart
The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.
Love will never be anywhere except where equality and unity are..... And there can be no love where love does not find equality or is not busy creating equality. Nor is there any pleasure without equality. Practice equality in human society. Learn to love, esteem, consider all people like yourself. What happens to another, be it bad or good, pain or joy, ought to be as if it happened to you.
Apprehend God in all things, for God is in all things. Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.
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There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Become aware of what is in you. Announce it, pronounce it, produce it, and give birth to it.
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If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
If you focus too narrowly on a single path to God, all you will ever find is the path.
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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What is this darkness? What is its name? Call it an aptitude for sensitivity which will make you whole. Call it your potential for Vulnerability.
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Compassion is where peace and justice kiss.
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